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New York proposes background checks for 3D printer purchases — the bill combats 3D-printed guns (www.tomshardware.com)
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Do you have a license for that 3D printer?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think we should be mandating safe storage though. Less kids and thieves with guns sounds great and I don't see a 2A issue. Maybe allow one unsecured firearm in the home for defense. Maybe even 1 long gun and 1 pistol. Dunno.

Couple things on this one:

  1. For it to be effective, it would have to be ALL guns in the house. If you leave out two, what's stopping those from being the stolen two? Kids and robbers could still get them.

  2. Safes are either A) expensive as hell or B) dogshit that can be bypassed in 30sec and there is not much in between. So either you have the $2k to spend on an actual decent safe (that can still be broken into, just harder) or you buy a cheap safe that will only keep honest people honest. If we mandate the safes be good, that's "guns only for the rich with an extra 2k for a safe," if any stack on cabinet can do we may as well not have the law as you can get in with a screwdriver.

Furthermore, I have no kids nor roommates. I don't think my cat is likely to steal a rifle 2x her weight and 4x her length, and my whole house should be considered at least on par with the security of a stack-on cabinet (more I'd argue, frankly.)

Now 3) If you do mandate all be stored in a good rich person's safe, that still leaves us at "no guns out for home defense," meaning gun thefts now just occur by making the homeowner empty the safe at gunpoint and nothing has been solved.